A compilation of the best bits of the new series of 2DTV will be broadcast on 23rd December 2004 on ITV1 at 11.00pm.
Cirkeline og verdens mindste superhelt, an 80 minute feature film directed by Jannik Hastrup, has been released in Denmark.
I Am Not An Animal by Baby Cow Animation has been nominated in the Best Comedy category of the 2005 Broadcast awards, to be held in January.
Circuit Marine by Isabelle Favez has been nominated in the Animation section of the Swiss Film Prize, which will be awarded in January 2005.
Circuit Marine by Isabelle Favez and Poteline by Chloé Miller are competing at the Festival Des Nuits Magiques in Bègles, France.
Poteline by Chloé Miller is competing in the International Short Films section of Animadrid 2004, which starts today.
Poteline by Chloé Miller is competing in the Animation section of Cinemascotte 2004, in Tournus, France.
Astley Baker Davies ran a CelAction2D training course last week from their London studio. Peppa Pig animation director Joris Van Hulzen taught 7 students from a variety of animation backgrounds. Let us know if you are interested in future courses and we will keep your details on file.
Yoko! Jakamoko! Toto! by Collingwood O'Hare has won the Best Pre-school Animation and Best Original Writing awards at the 2004 Children's BAFTAs.
Intolerance III - The Final Solution by Phil Mulloy won the Prize Of the Town Espinho and the Prize for Best in Category at Cinanima 2004 in Espinho, Portugal.
Intolerance III - The Final Solution by Phil Mulloy is in the International Competition at the I Castelli Animati film festival 2004. Circuit Marine by Isabelle Favez and Winter Days featuring Mark Baker will also be shown.
Intolerance III - The Final Solution by Phil Mulloy shares the Jury Prize of the 15th San Sebastian Horror and Fantasy Film Festival 2004.
Swamp's W.O.W. has won the EDI Clips & Trailers "L'Or pour l'ensemble de la production" award.
A brand new series of 2DTV, the topical animated sketch show, will be broadcast from 8th November 2004 on ITV1 at 11.00pm. It will run for 6 half-hour episodes.
Intolerance III - The Final Solution by Phil Mulloy is in competition at Cinanima 2004 in Espinho, Portugal.
Yoko! Jakamoko! Toto! - "The Traveller" by Collingwood O'Hare Entertainment got 2nd Prize in the Children's Jury - Animated Television Production at the Chicago Children's Film Festival.
The best of the fourth series of 2DTV is being released today on DVD.
Yoko! Jakamoko! Toto! by Collingwood O'Hare and Peppa Pig by Astley Baker Davies have been nominated in the Pre-school category of the children's BAFTAs. This is a milestone because all the 2D productions in this category have been made using our software. In addition, Tony Collingwood has been nominated for Best Writer for Yoko! Jakamoko! Toto! too.
Circuit Marine by Isabelle Favez is competing for Best Swiss Film at the Winterthur Film Festival 2004.
Swamp's W.O.W., the animated segment of Switzerland's Punkt.ch, has been nominated for an EDI award.
Two Yoko! Jakamoko! Toto! shorts by Collingwood O'Hare (The Special Thing and The Traveller) and Circuit Marine by Isabelle Favez are being shown at the Chicago Children's Film Festival.
Love Is Strange and Intolerance III - The Final Solution by Phil Mulloy and Circuit Marine by Isabelle Favez are in competition at the Holland Animation Film Festival 2004 in Utrecht.
Circuit Marine by Isabelle Favez and Intolerance III - The Final Solution by Phil Mulloy are competing in the International section of the Leipzig 2004 festival.
Circuit Marine won the Audience Prize for Best Out-Of-Town Film at the New England Animation Bash, held in New England this summer.
According to Animation World Network, Collingwood O'Hare's The Secret Show was the most popular of the 68 projects presented at Cartoon Forum.
Temps De Cuisine by Grégory Duroy is competing in the Student's Film category at the 2004 Krok Film Festival.
Winter Days, the collaborative feature film containing a segment by Mark Baker, is in competition for Best Animated Feature Film at the Ottawa International Animation Festival on the 22nd-26th September. Also being shown are Intolerance III - The Final Solution by Phil Mulloy, Circuit Marine by Isabelle Favez and Yoko! Jakamoko! Toto! - "The Traveller" by Collingwood O'Hare Entertainment. See http://www.awn.com/ottawa/ for more information.
Circuit Marine by Isabelle Favez is showing in the Children's Programme, Temps De Cuisine by Grégory Duroy is showing in the Student's Programme, and Intolerance III - The Final Solution by Phil Mulloy is showing in the Best Of The World Programme at the Hiroshima 2004 festival.
Circuit Marine by Isabelle Favez, Temps De Cuisine by Grégory Duroy and Intolerance III - The Final Solution by Phil Mulloy will be shown at the London International Animation Festival from 24th-29th August. See http://www.liaf.org.uk for more information.
Collingwood O'Hare's new project, The Secret Show, is being presented at this year's Cartoon Forum in September.
Phil Mulloy's Intolerance III - The Final Solution, Circuit Marine by Isabelle Favez and Temps De Cuisine by Grégory Duroy are all in competition at Anima Mundi 2004.
Phil Mulloy's Intolerance III - The Final Solution won an Award For Films With Outstanding Qualities At The Discretion Of The Jury at the Zagreb World Festival of Animated Films 2004.
Circuit Marine received an Honourable Mention for Best Animated Short at the Worldwide Short Film Festival 2004 in Toronto.
CelAction will be represented at the Annecy Film Festival from 7th-12th June 2004. However, this year we are not taking a stand at MIFA. This is due to the fact that the MIFA dates have been brought forward to the beginning of the week (7-10 June), and our preliminary research has shown that most of the people who want to meet us will be arriving only from the 10th June (for the festival) and will not be visiting MIFA. We still remain committed to supporting MIFA, but we do hope that next year the organisers will return the MIFA dates to their original days to be more in line with what our customers require. We will be meeting people and demonstrating our software in Annecy for the whole week. Please e-mail us to organise a meeting.
I Am Not An Animal by Baby Cow Animation will begin its' 6 x 30' series on BBC2 from Monday 10th May 2004 at 10.00pm.
CNEX won the Best Light Entertainment category at the 2004 Welsh BAFTA awards.
CNEX won the Best Entertainment prize at the 2004 Celtic Film and Television Festival.
Yoko! Jakamoko! Toto! won the Golden Cairo award in the TV Programmes category at the 2004 Cairo International Film Festival for Children.
CNEX, the Welsh animated satire animated in part by Cinetig, has been nominated for the Best Entertainment prize at the 2004 Celtic Film and Television Festival, and for Best Graphics at the Welsh Baftas 2004.
Circuit Marine by Isabelle Favez has been selected for the Grand Competition at the Zagreb Animated Film Festival 2004.
Yoko! Jakamoko! Toto! won the Writers Award and Monkey Dust won Best Comedy at the 2004 British Animation Awards.
I Am Not An Animal by Baby Cow Animation is a 6 x 30' series made completely in CelAction2D, featuring a group of talking animals who escape from a laboratory. This dark comedy will be shown on BBC2.
Monkey Dust by TalkbackThames won Best Multichannel Programme at the 2004 Broadcast Awards.
CelAction is proud to support the 2004 British Animation Awards, by being one of the Sponsors of the event, which is held at London's Shaw Theatre on Friday. In addition, CelAction's Creative Director Andy Blazdell was one of the Jury members for the Best Animated Commercial: Director, Best Animated Commercial: Craft and Best Film/TV Graphics awards.
Circuit Marine by Isabelle Favez is in competition for Best Short Film and Temps De Cuisine by Grégory Duroy is in competition for the Best Student Film at the Annecy Film Festival 2004. Intolerance III - The Final Solution by Phil Mulloy is in panorama. See http://www.annecy.org for more information.
The entire third series of 2DTV is being released on 15th March 2004, on both DVD and VHS.
Circuit Marine by Isabelle Favez, and Intolerance III - The Final Solution by Phil Mulloy are both competing in the Internationales Trickfilm Festival Stuttgart 2004. More information can be found at http://www.itfs.de/.
The third part of the Intolerance trilogy, The Final Solution, by Phil Mulloy has been completed. This 22-minute film was produced by Studio FilmBilder in Germany.
Temps De Cuisine by Grégory Duroy received the Coups De Coeur SACEM Pour La Réalisation at e.magicien 2003.
The second 26 episodes of Yoko! Jakamoko! Toto! by Collingwood O'Hare Entertainment will be shown on ITV1 every weekday from Monday April 26th. The provisional time is 3.15pm, but check your TV guides nearer the time as broadcast times are subject to change.
2DTV, the topical animated sketch show, will be broadcast from 7th March 2004 on ITV1, with repeats on ITV2. It will run for 6 half-hour episodes. A new series is also planned for the autumn.
Peppa Pig, the 52x5 series by AstleyBakerDavies, will be broadcast from 31st May 2004 on Channel 5 in the UK. It has been extremely successful internationally, with deals in Australia, France, New Zealand, Norway, Korea and Sweden.
Two productions made with the help of CelAction2D are finalists in the 2004 British Animation Awards - Yoko! Jakamoko! Toto! is up for the Writers Award and Monkey Dust is up for the Writers Award and Best Comedy.
Circuit Marine received a Special Mention at the Berlin International Film Festival 2004 in Germany. It was screened as part of the Kinderfilmfest section.
At the Anima 2004 film festival, Winter Days, the feature film containing a segment by Mark Baker made in CelAction2D is competing for Best Feature Film, and also Circuit Marine by Isabelle Favez and Temps De Cuisine by Grégory Duroy are in competition for the Best Short Film prize. See http://www.awn.com/folioscope/anima04/gb/index.html for more information.
Circuit Marine, the short film directed by Isabelle Favez, won the Audience Prize at the Solothurn Film Festival 2004 in Switzerland.